Archive for the 'SciLit' Category
Optimization by Simulated Annealing | Science
May 16, 2020Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
May 10, 2020Here’s the paper in Cell
https://www.cell.com/pb-assets/products/coronavirus/CELL_CELL-D-20-00892.pdf Apparently done by Nathan Grubagh here at Yale.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavirus-outbreak.html
Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments | Nature
May 4, 2020https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22332
Letter | Published: 17 May 2017
Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments
Hirokazu Shirado & Nicholas A. Christakis
Nature volume 545, pages370–374 (18 May 2017)
Detecting sample swaps in diverse NGS data types using linkage disequilibrium | bioRxiv
April 29, 2020Effectiveness of N95 respirators versus surgical masks in protecting health care workers from acute respiratory infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis | CMAJ
April 26, 2020https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567
Argues surgical masks are often as effective as N95s
Alu elements: know the SINEs | Genome Biology | Full Text
April 26, 2020The Evolution of Trichromatic Color Vision by Opsin Gene Duplication in New World and Old World Primates
April 26, 2020https://genome.cshlp.org/content/9/7/629.full
Alu implicated in duplication related to 3-color vision
Reawakening Retrocyclins: Ancestral Human Defensins Active Against HIV-1
April 25, 2020https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000095
reawakened pseudogenes useful against HIV
A radiative cooling structural material | Science
April 19, 2020QT:{{”
A stronger, cooler wood
One good way to reduce the amount of cooling a building needs is to make sure it reflects away infrared radiation. Passive radiative cooling materials are engineered to do this extremely well. Li et al. engineered a wood through delignification and re-pressing to create a mechanically strong material that also cools passively. They modeled the cooling savings of their wood for 16 different U.S. cities, which suggested savings between 20 and 50%. Cooling wood would be of particular value in hot and dry climates.
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interesting material for anti-insulation
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6442/760.full
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6442/760.editor-summary
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